We must always thank God for you, brothers. This is right, since your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing.

They are proof positive of God's equity; you are suffering for the realm of God, and he means to make you worthy of it ??6 since God considers it but just to repay with trouble those who trouble you,

since it is a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you -- trouble,

and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

Also pray that we may be rescued from worthless and evil people, since not everyone holds to the faith.